Stories

What are you looking for?

Filter stories

  • Cloverdale Bridge

    Kristine Kowalchuk

    The Cloverdale footbridge crosses the North Saskatchewan River in central Edmonton, connecting Henrietta Muir Edwards Park in Cloverdale and Louise…

  • When Trolleys Came to Edmonton

    Lawrence Herzog

    For 70 years, electric trolleybuses travelled the streets of Edmonton. Between 1939 and 2009, they provided the city with an…

  • The Father of Edmonton’s Traffic Circles

    Lawrence Herzog

    He established the practice of “neighbourhood unit” planning. And, borrowing a popular urban design feature from his native land, he…

  • Re-Imagining Rossdale: Pehonan and the Power Plant

    Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail

    EPCOR decommissioned the Rossdale power plant in 2011 and handed it over to the City not long after I moved…

  • Retrofutures: Edmonton’s Omniplex – Part 1

    Dr. Russell Cobb

    Many recent projects—the expansion of the University of Alberta, the construction of the West Edmonton Mall, the plans for new…

  • Retrofutures: Edmonton’s Omniplex – Part 2

    Dr. Russell Cobb

    Continued from Retrofutures: Edmonton’s Omniplex – Part 1 This moment in Edmonton’s history happened to coincide with one of the…

  • The City Market: Local Goods and a Homegrown Community

    Sally Scott

    When I first moved downtown from the Whyte Avenue area, I was incredibly nervous. Resistant to the idea that downtown…

  • The Pits of Mill Woods

    Christina Hardie

    It was where we’d hunt for tadpoles in the spring and build tree forts in the summer—a wild place where real life blended with childhood make-believe.